Possible New API site?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:27 pm
Hi Evilhero,
I've been hunting around for a site that could be better for api than CV. CV while good(ish) is so very slow. Apparently, a lot of the original developers there are gone.
From what I understand comics.org (grand comic db) has an api. I'm not smart enough to figure out how it works or even how to find it haha. I checked some of the issues that came out from this week and all are on there but not all of them have covers which kind of sucks. It's fast though. when doing a search on the site it pops up immediately and the best choice is always at or near the top.
Someone in March in a different forum posted this about the databases:
Recorded Issues
Grand Comics Database: 1,257,285
Comicvine: 471,384
Comicbookdb: 346,624
But as I said, not all the covers are available. Not sure if it's worth a look, or use this place for data and just get the covers from CV if comics.org doesn't have them? Or if it's all more work than it needs to be.
When I'm adding new series (number 1s) since Mylar doesn't have them indexed... or I don't think they are as the option to add them isn't there, I have to search for them and CV is soooooooo slow, what should take minutes ends up taking way longer than should be necessary. No fault of Mylar of course I know it's CV slowing it down.
comics.org is user added info too, so maybe new release images would be quicker to show up if supported by Mylar. Who knows.
I set up an account but I still can't find the api info. Maybe they're still looking for someone to help implement their API?
Just a suggestion.
I've been hunting around for a site that could be better for api than CV. CV while good(ish) is so very slow. Apparently, a lot of the original developers there are gone.
From what I understand comics.org (grand comic db) has an api. I'm not smart enough to figure out how it works or even how to find it haha. I checked some of the issues that came out from this week and all are on there but not all of them have covers which kind of sucks. It's fast though. when doing a search on the site it pops up immediately and the best choice is always at or near the top.
Someone in March in a different forum posted this about the databases:
Recorded Issues
Grand Comics Database: 1,257,285
Comicvine: 471,384
Comicbookdb: 346,624
But as I said, not all the covers are available. Not sure if it's worth a look, or use this place for data and just get the covers from CV if comics.org doesn't have them? Or if it's all more work than it needs to be.
When I'm adding new series (number 1s) since Mylar doesn't have them indexed... or I don't think they are as the option to add them isn't there, I have to search for them and CV is soooooooo slow, what should take minutes ends up taking way longer than should be necessary. No fault of Mylar of course I know it's CV slowing it down.
comics.org is user added info too, so maybe new release images would be quicker to show up if supported by Mylar. Who knows.
I set up an account but I still can't find the api info. Maybe they're still looking for someone to help implement their API?
Just a suggestion.